You will serve as a NAVAL ARCHITECT (OCEAN & COASTAL) in the Naval Academy Hydromechanics Laboratory (NAHL) Branch/Department of NAVAL ACADEMY.

Duties

You will provide consultation to midshipmen, faculty and external users/researchers in evaluating the proposals, designs and test setups for nonstandard uses of NAHL facilities, particularly as related to ocean/coastal engineering. You will work with faculty, midshipmen, Navy/non-Navy and contractors in performance of in house and contract testing and laboratory experimentation/evaluation. You will evaluate test program design objectives, perform complex technical calculations and identifies the most economical and efficient procedures for test program and performance. You will prepare detailed cost estimates for use in obtaining project funding and for bid evaluation. You will suggest improvements and modifications to test procedures in the case of tests on a nonstandard nature. You will mentor undergraduate students and junior faculty members, particularly those interested in ocean/coastal engineering. You will conduct semi-independent and /or supervised studies leading to extension of knowledge in technical fields within NAHL's functional areas. You will prepare correspondence, technical reports, publications, cost estimates, fact sheets, status reports and schedules as required to complete project assignments.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• This is a bargaining unit position.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.

Qualifications

For GS-12 In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Experience in planning, managing, coordinating, implementing proposing, designs and test setups for an ocean/coastal engineering laboratory; 2) Knowledge of ocean wave theory, ocean instrumentation, physical oceanography and geo-technology; 3) Leading laboratory experimentation and evaluations; 4) Working closely with faculty and midshipmen in laboratory experimentation and evaluation; and 5) Displaying the able to perform complex technical calculation. For GS-11 In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector as a professional engineer. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Assisting in coordinating test setups for an ocean/coastal engineering laboratory; 2) Knowledge of ocean wave theory, ocean instrumentation, physical oceanography and geo-technology; 3) Providing assistance to faculty in interactive laboratory exercises. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series or https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/naval-architecture-series-0871/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess

Successful completion of a professional engineering degree. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position.

OR

Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration For more information about EI and EIT registration requirements, please visit the National Society of Professional Engineers website at: http://www.nspe.org

OR

Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The FE examination is not administered by the U. S. Office of Personnel Management. For more information, please visit: http://www.nspe.org/Licensure/HowtoGetLicensed/index.html.

OR

Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and in engineering that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A (above). The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A (above)

OR

Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily, there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.

In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience:

For the GS-11 Grade Level Only:

• successful completion of a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; -OR-
• successful completion of three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. or equivalent degree; -OR-
• a combination of experience and education as described above that equates to one year of experience.

Contacts

• Address NAVAL ACADEMY 121 Blake Road Annapolis, MD 21402 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]